Note 5. This sonnet is complete of its kind. There is not a sentence which does not contain information; not a word too much; no want of increased interest; all is strong, simple, and affecting. Clere died of a wound received while he was attending his lord, as here mentioned. His family was of Norman origin; and he was the son of Sir Robert Clere, of Ormsby in Norfolk, by a lady of the Boleyn family. [back]